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Commander

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Sol'kanar the Swamp King
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Sol'kanar the Swamp King (tsb) 100

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Drain

Qty: 5 Price: $16.21
Epicure of Blood
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Epicure of Blood (j22) 411
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (scd) 80
Great Unclean One
Reverberating Summons — At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 2 life. Then for each opponent who has less life than you, create a 1/3 black Demon creature token named Plaguebearer of Nurgle.
Creature - Demon
Great Unclean One (40k) 35
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153

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Draw

Qty: 18 Price: $23.78
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Bird
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Bloodsoaked Insight
This spell costs
less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
Target opponent exiles the top three cards of their library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If you cast a spell this way, mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
Sorcery
Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (mkc) 96
Cathartic Reunion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards.
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (plst) KLD-109
Consider
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Consider (clu) 84
Cruel Ultimatum
Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.
Sorcery
Cruel Ultimatum (e01) 82
Demand Answers
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 122
Faithless Looting
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Faithless Looting (otc) 165
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Mask of Griselbrand
Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Mask of Griselbrand (mid) 111
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (otc) 104
Ponder
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Ponder (otc) 105
Preordain
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Preordain (otc) 107
Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Read the Bones (cmm) 182
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2.
Sorcery
Serum Visions (otc) 112
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
Thrill of Possibility
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Thrill of Possibility (one) 151
Well of Lost Dreams
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.
Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (c21) 275

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Finisher

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Vorpal Sword
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Vorpal Sword (afr) 124

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Interaction

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Arcane Denial
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Arcane Denial (otc) 89
Bedevil
Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.
Instant
Bedevil (brc) 121
Chaos Warp
The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Instant
Chaos Warp (otc) 160
Contaminated Ground
Enchant land
Enchanted land is a Swamp.
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.
Enchantment - Aura
Contaminated Ground (gtc) 59
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Instant
Countersquall (uma) 198
Crosis's Charm
Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
• Destroy target artifact.
Instant
Crosis's Charm (plst) C17-169
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Doom Blade
Destroy target nonblack creature.
Instant
Doom Blade (ima) 87
Evil Presence
Enchant land
Enchanted land is a Swamp.
Enchantment - Aura
Evil Presence (nph) 60
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (otc) 134
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Perplex
Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Perplex (rav) 217
Rakdos Charm
Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.
Instant
Rakdos Charm (lcc) 284
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Terminate (scd) 249

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Land

Qty: 37 (38 w/ MDFC)Price: $27.21
Bloodfell Caves
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Bloodfell Caves (mom) 267
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
Crumbling Necropolis
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Crumbling Necropolis (lcc) 326
Dismal Backwater
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dismal Backwater (mom) 269
Dragonskull Summit
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dragonskull Summit (otc) 289
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (otc) 290
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (otc) 293
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (acr) 303
Leechridden Swamp
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped.
,
: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.
Land - Swamp
Leechridden Swamp (j22) 137
Maestros Theater
When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.
Land
Maestros Theater (snc) 251
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (acr) 305
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Seething Landscape
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Seething Landscape (mh3) 225
Smoldering Marsh
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Smoldering Marsh (otc) 321
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (otc) 325
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (acr) 304
Tainted Isle
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Isle (mkc) 300
Tainted Peak
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Peak (otc) 327
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (otc) 334
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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Lifegain

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Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Demon's Horn
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
Diamond Mare
As this creature enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Horse
Diamond Mare (plst) M19-231
Geyadrone Dihada
Protection from permanents with corruption counters on them
+1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Put a corruption counter on up to one other target creature or planeswalker.
−3: Gain control of target creature or planeswalker until end of turn. Untap it and put a corruption counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.
−7: Gain control of each permanent with a corruption counter on it.
Legendary Planeswalker - Dihada
Geyadrone Dihada (mh2) 199
Kardur, Doomscourge
When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.
Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Demon Berserker
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 216
Paradise Plume
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Artifact
Paradise Plume (c21) 255
Prism Ring
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Prism Ring (ori) 235
Staff of the Death Magus
Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Staff of the Death Magus (m15) 232
Tablet of the Guilds
As this artifact enters, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.
Artifact
Tablet of the Guilds (rtr) 235

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Pump

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Blackblade Reforged
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature

Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Blackblade Reforged (dmc) 178
Lashwrithe
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Artifact - Equipment
Lashwrithe (c14) 245

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
Blanket of Night
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Enchantment
Blanket of Night (vis) 52
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Defiler of Flesh
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (otc) 257
Izzet Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Izzet Signet (otc) 259
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Nightscape Familiar
Blue spells and red spells you cast cost
less to cast.
: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Zombie
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
Rakdos Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Rakdos Signet (otc) 265
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Talisman of Creativity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (cmm) 979
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242
Talisman of Indulgence
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (lcc) 317

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Recursion

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Witch of the Moors
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152

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18 mana - 18 cards
50 pips - 35 cards
39 mana - 37 cards
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17 mana - 17 cards
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5 mana - 5 cards
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11 mana - 9 cards
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